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Then, one day, 30,000 incarcerated people went on hunger strike.
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
Sharpton served a 90-day sentence in 2001 and went on a hunger strike for protesting the U.S. Navy bombing of the island of Vieques, in Puerto Rico.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024
The chapel occupation and hunger strike was led by Students for Justice for Palestine, an unofficial student organization on the campus, and involved around 20 students and supportive faculty; eight students joined the hunger strike.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
Anatoly Marchenko died from a hunger strike in 1986, and a couple of years later the satanic Soviet Union fell to pieces.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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Matthew Carey, Deadline, 11 Oct. 2024
Sharpton served a 90-day sentence in 2001 and went on a hunger strike for protesting the U.S. Navy bombing of the island of Vieques, in Puerto Rico.
—Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2024
The chapel occupation and hunger strike was led by Students for Justice for Palestine, an unofficial student organization on the campus, and involved around 20 students and supportive faculty; eight students joined the hunger strike.
—Nollyanne Delacruz, The Mercury News, 17 May 2024
Anatoly Marchenko died from a hunger strike in 1986, and a couple of years later the satanic Soviet Union fell to pieces.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Hunger strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hunger%20strike. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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